A Mock Crucifixion and Ketchup
The club owner suspended him the next day for two weeks. But Kinison didn’t give a sh**, remember? He showed up the next night in a rented limo. He was a rock ’n’ roll comic, remember? He then held a mock crucifixion across the street from the club, wearing only a dirty towel and covered in ketchup.
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True story. And if you saw the license plate – EX-REV – you wouldn’t have been surprised. That was at the brink of a new wild and crazy decade – the 1980s. Things were about to get even wilder.